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The Garden (system term)

The Garden is a Headspace Location term which refers to the area in headspace where headmates initially form . In a system that has a garden, when a special interest(s) // hyperfixation(s) becomes especially prevelant, a seed is planted in the garden . The greater the interest, the more the seed thrives and grows . As time goes on, these seeds will grow into plants . When a split or formation occurs, the plant blooms at that exact point, and the new headmate is brought into full formation . Some plants may never bloom, while others may grow rapidly, being planted one hour and brought into full bloom the next -- it depends upon the system . A system may have a headmate who tends to the garden to keep it in check -- this headmate may be called a gardener or gardenkeeper . The gardener may prevent plants from growing too quickly, thus quelling rapid headmate formation . The gardener will also tend to the already bloomed plants and keep them healthy, as these directly affect the status of each headmate and vice versa . If the system lacks a gardener, it's possible that headmates will form at overwhelming speeds, especially if one is neurodivergent + very attached to their special interests // hyperfixations . Without a gardener, headspace may experience a sort of innerworld earthquake (which may be referred to as a seedquake or gardenquake) as half-formed headmates struggle to make their way up and out of the ground of the garden . When a system is experiencing heightened emotional levels, whether positive or negative, this can potentially act as a a sort of speed-up for sprouts, or even seeds that haven't broken the surface yet . This is referred to as emo-bonemeal, or emotion bonemeal, due to how it causes the plants to thrive . Terms that may be used by Garden Systems: ☆ n. seed -- the first hint of a headmate forming; an interest planted into the garden ☆ n. seedling // sprout -- may be used to describe the growing seed, or as an endearment for newly-formed headmates ☆ n. bloom -- may be used in reference to a fully formed headmate's plant ☆ n. gardener // gardenkeeper (role) -- a headmate or headmates who tend to the garden; such as keeping plants from growing too fast, keeping soil soft and tender so as to prevent seedquakes, maintaining blooms, etc. ☆ n. gardenquake // seedquake -- when a seedling headmate is struggling to grow, or is about to form, thus causing sort of earthquakes within the innerworld ☆ v. bloomed -- an alternative to the term "formed" ☆ n. emo-bonemeal // emotion bonemeal -- heightened emotional levels causing plant growth at potentially alarming rates THIS IS NOT FINISHED i'm just too tired rn xd

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old post, but i remembered seeing something along the lines of it somewhere else i love these little details

The Symbolism and Motifs Behind Adora and Catra’s Designs/Looks

Adora 

(Hair down)

The biggest visual motif that is used for Adora is her hair. When she is Adora her hair being up symbolizes her being constrained by her destiny, obligations, responsibilities, past abuse, etc and every time she has a breakthrough or is freed from one of these her hair is let down. This first happens in Destiny part 2 when Adora breaks the sword and for the first time in 4 seasons Adora’s hair is down and she has “freed” herself from her horrible destiny. In season 5 this happens more frequently. In Save the Cat Adora’s hair comes out of her ponytail when she is saving Catra, when she has resolved herself to mend their relationship and reconnect. She has once again “freed” herself from the guilt and emotional pain that came from having to believe that Catra was lost, of being able to reconnect and keep childhood promises and make new ones. And another big one in Heart part 2 after Catra and Adora confess to each other her hair once again falls out of the ponytail symbolizing Adora finally being able to reach for a future that she wants and being “freed” from the obligations that she thought she had to neglect her needs and sacrifice herself for others. Adora’s hair coming loose is (clearly through the examples mentioned) meant to symbolize emotional breakthroughs that Adora has. Adora is a character that isn’t that in touch with her emotions and struggles to comprehend things beyond what she was raised for, battle and war, so each breakthrough is her gradually breaking free of her upbringing.

(She-ra’s look season 1-4)

(She-ra’s look in season 5)

It’s interesting to note that She-ra’s redesign follows the exact opposite motif with her hair, but symbolizes something similar. She-ra’s redesign looks a lot more like Adora does than her original design and this is meant to show how Adora has made she-ra her own. She-ra is no longer what the first ones intended, she is not the sword, she-ra is Adora. Another detail is how the new design incorporates certain aspects of each of the most important people in her life: the heart on her chest for Bow, the wings on her shoes for Glimmer, and her new mask for Catra. She-ra and her meaning have been altered by Adora and her experiences and I really love that fact. This is Adora taking back control over something that was supposed to be used to manipulate her. Which is a core part of her character because of the struggles she has with her abuse at shadow weaver’s hands. This is a part of the culmination of Adora’s arc of discovering she is more than what she can do for others. That her destiny, the destiny of she-ra, is in her own hands. That the manipulations of people trying to use her isn’t what has made Adora the person and hero she is today, but the personal connections she forged and her own personal drive to do what she believes is right.

Catra 

Season 1-3 look

season 4 (and beginning of season 5) look

Season 5 look

(under prime’s control)

(once she joins the rebellion)

One of my favorite recurring motifs with Catra is the literal mask that she wears and that in this season after she decides to save Glimmer the mask is gone from her design completely. The dark exterior that Catra uses to hide her feelings and pain is gone and she has finally decided to be true to herself. Same with her eyes. Catra has heterochromia which is used to outwardly display her dual nature and warring inner conflict between her love and hatred of Adora and in the 5th season it’s used to portray her struggle between self betterment and sliding into old habits and self destruction. This is shown very clearly in the episode “Taking Control”. Whenever Catra is lashing out at Adora she’s turned so that her blue eye is the only one in frame and when Catra is being vulnerable or showing regret her yellow eye is the one that’s in frame. When she decides to use the chip to discover Horde Prime’s plan and protect Adora her yellow eye is the one in frame further emphasizing her decision to change. I really liked this detail in the episode. There is also the very obvious one in the season 3 finale where the blue eye is the one covered by the corruption in season 3 symbolizing Catra’s decision to commit to her villain role. Her darkness had won over her light. And it comes full circle once again in the series finale. Once Catra makes the decision to go back for Adora and stands up to shadow weaver her blue eye is the one shown in side views. Showing that she has overcome what had been her biggest shortcoming in this series, pushing others away to protect herself.

I just really loved how they used Catra’s character design to its fullest and didn’t waste details. It’s really easy to just be like “wow this looks cool” and then do nothing with it, but the she-ra crew was like “wow this looks cool now let’s do something with it”. For example when Catra gets her redesign in season 4 her hair is a lot less poofy and her ear tufts are gone and it’s tied into her character progression. Catra got rid of her ear tufts because shadow weaver had used caressing them as a way to manipulate Catra and her feelings. Catra now associates them with negative emotions and weakness and wants to “cut off” any possibility of feeling that kind of emotional pain again. The darker colors of her clothes also reflect her decision in the previous season. Catra’s main colors before this season were much lighter reds, but now it’s a deep, dark red showing her descent into the darkness when she opened the portal and her denial. Her color scheme changes once again in season 5. Her shoulders have maintained the darker red, but the dark sleeves that she had are now gone making it so that the lighter reds overcome or overshadow the darker red symbolizing how the light inside of her has overcome the dark. Yet it’s still keeps the colors darker than season 1 because Catra has done things since then that have made it so that she can’t go back to being that same person before she committed her mistakes. She’s a much healthier person though and has come to accept her mistakes and try to move forward in a better healthier direction (again symbolized by the color of her clothes).

I also want to point out Catra’s design in save the cat. In Save the Cat Catra is in all white and grey with her hair slicked back perfectly in place. The more Catra comes to her senses and is freed from primes control the messier her hair gets. It is similar to Adora’s hair motif, but with Catra’s hair becoming messier it can also symbolize her embracing/remembering her mistakes and the messiness that comes from trying to move forward in a more positive direction. When brainwashed and under primes control she doesn’t even remember her mistakes because Prime has “washed” away the pain along with the memory. Also white is typically used to symbolize purity but in this context it feels very out of place. This isn’t who Catra is. The reason she goes back to the red is that once again it symbolizes her decisions and choices. Catra can’t undo the mistakes so she “wears” them and acknowledges them after this episode. This is why in the transition episode Catra is wearing grey undergarments. Catra isn’t at the point where she can face her mistakes even though she has admitted them, symbolized by the transfer from white to grey. Her clothing being undergarments alone shows how vulnerable and insecure Catra is feeling about these mistakes. The very next episode after she resolves to face her mistakes she goes back to her red color scheme, again with less of the dark red than in season 4 showing her decision to change and go down a “lighter” path.

I MADE SOME MORE GUYS EEEEEEEE

i'm rlly excited abt these x3 they aren't the BEST (this is my first time making em) but here u go !! four nd x <333 (first set is 32x32, second set is 64x64)

Elwin the entire series pretending to not be interested in what's going on between Sophie and Keefe

hot take

kotlc finshes with amy. think about it though: it’s called keeper of the lost cities. amy is, quite literally, a keeper of the lost cities. she is the only human (that we know of) who is fully aware of the presence of other intelligent species, and she has to keep this from everyone she knows and loves. anyone got any ideas how she’d work in?

i brought this up a few weeks ago with my younger sibling, and i still stand by it- the whole idea of a live action movie for a series where so many of the components would either cost way too much and look like crap or just flatout be impossible to do is not very compelling. the problem is is that the plans for the movie is already underway, and i wouldn’t know the first thing about getting a say in it- what i’m saying is this, more or less: if disney does this right (which i very highly doubt that they will) good on them, but i will not be satisfied :(

Ok so ik that they r like already making a keeper movie, (possibly- how longs has the wait been so far?) but am I the only one who thinks it would b waaayy better as like an animated show??

Like hear me out like half the book’s dialogue happens telepathically, so either the movie just has a bunch of rly random moments where the characters start staring at each other or they do like a weird echoey sound effect 2 make it sound like it’s in their heads. Neither sounds good 2 me

Also Ik that cgi is like rly good now, but I still live in constant fear of like a rly cursed looking cgi Sander (and Ro, and Calla, and any other non elf character) plus just a lot of things like vanishing and Sophie’s jacked inflicting would translate better as like a 2d animation

Last thing I wanna say is, when u make a book in2 a movie, u gotta cut stuff out- that’s just how it works. No1 wants 2 watch a 4 hour movie. But I just feel like there is 2 much stuff that’s 2 important 2 cut out. I feel that way about a lot of books. That’s why I’m happy they’re making Percy Jackson in2 a show, and why I think they should do the same with keeper

HAiiii i was wondering if you were still taking rentry graphic requests? if not then just ignore this! can i have some blue and yellow four + x graphics please?

i gotta get to bed, but i whipped these up 4 u !!!! lmk anytime u want more :3 /gen

edit: i can def make some more 2morrow, if u wanted to hmu w another ask so i don't forget !! :3

sokeefe headcanons!

1) personally, i like the idea of keefe being the more soft one out of the two. like, he’s all bold and big, but the SECOND sophie says ONE sweet thing to him, he just- unravels- he is blush soup. 2) just like- the idea of sophie being the more masc one. i’ve said on pinterest that she’d look killer in a tux with a corset, and she so would, and she’d probably love it too, little punk baby that she is. 3, going along with 2) keefe is fem. he paints his nails, ro teaches him to do eyeliner, sometimes he wears skirts. 4) ro also taught keefe to braid, so sometimes he and sophie will vibing, and he’ll just braid small strand of her hair, and vice versa (see: hiccup and astrid, how to train your dragon 2) 5) keefe bakes. sophie tries, but is really REALLY bad at it. she is, however, very adept at making pasta, which both she and keefe love. because who doesn’t love some good pasta. 6) they paint each others nails while listening to a wide variety of music, and gossip. 7) sophie asks councilor terik to take her to her house guts (what else is there to call it, honestly-) again, and she retrieves a dvd player, tv, and her whole dvd collection. she asks dex to make them solar powered, and he does, smort little bestie boi that he is. sokeefe movie nights and cuddle <3 (also whole group movie nights, but that doesn’t quite fit into this post xd) i have more but those can be for later :)

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